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*' Fal'fter, and Scoley on his left, all which belong to Denemar- 

 " ca, we 9 had alfo Burgenda-land on our left, which hath a 

 " king of its own. After having left Burgendaland, the iflands 

 " of Becinga, Meroe, Eouland, and Gotland, were on our 

 '* left, which country belongs to Sweon ; and Weonodland 

 " was all the way on our right, to the mouth of the Wefel. 

 " This river is a very large one, and near it lies Wilknd and 

 " Weonodland, the former of which belongs to Eftum, and the 

 M Wefel does not run through Weonodland, but through Eft- 

 " mere, which lake is fifteen miles broad. Then runs the 

 4t Ilfing, from the eaftward into Eftmere ; on the bank of which 

 " ftands Trufo, and the Ilfing flows from Eaftland into the Eft-- 

 ** mere, and the Wefel from Weonodland to the fouth ; the 

 " Ilfing, having joined the Wefel takes its name, and runs to the 

 " weft of Eft mere-,, and northward into the Sea, when it is 

 tc called the Wefel's mouth. Eaftland is a large tract of coun- 

 " try, and there are in it many towns, and in every town; is a 

 " king ; there is alfo a great quantity of honey and fifti, and. 

 14 the king and the richeft men drink nothing but milk, whilft 

 " the poor and the (laves ufe mead, They have many contefts. 



° It feems very clear, from this expreiTion of we, that when king 

 JElfred came to this part of Orofius's geography, he confulted Oh there 

 and "Wulfftan, who had lived in the northern parts of Europe, which 

 the ancients were fo little acquainted with, and that he took down this- 

 account from their own mouths. For the fame reafon.it is not impro- 

 bable that there may be fome miftakes in the King's- relation, as though, 

 thefe northern travellers fpoke a language bearing an affinity to the- 

 Anglo Saxon, yet it was certainly a dialect with material variations. For. 

 proof of this let a chapter of the Speculum Repi/c,. written in the old; 

 Icelandic, or Norwegian, be compared with the Anglo-Saxon. This, 

 very curious work was £>ublifhed at Soroe, in i;63» 



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